Essential System Tools: ddrescue – Data recovery software
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This is the tenth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at ddrescue. Anyone who cares about preserving their data should invest a bit of time in learning about this utility.
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Linux is an excellent operating system to recover data with a wide variety of open source tools designed to clone and recover data from failing drives. When rescuing data from a dying hard drive, time is of the essence. A drive may degrade with each attempt to access it. The longer it takes to copy your data, the more data is at risk. ddrescue is one of our favorite data recovery tools. It’s maintained by the GNU project.
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